ASoIaF pilot greenlit on HBO

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#1 vaiski

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 12:19 PM

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 12:24 PM

Good news to see this moving forward :thumbsup:

Can't claim that there's much magic involved though, especially in the first book, so it's not quite as cliched as they are projecting...

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 12:42 PM

Awesooomeeeeeee

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 12:49 PM

HBO do good work. Fingers crossed for Martin fans (a group that I'm not a member of).

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 12:53 PM

If HBO cant do it...then no one can

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Why dont they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 02:29 PM

As usual with adaptations of books I love I'm feeling equal parts excitement and trepidation.
I recently watched the making of documentaries that were on the expanded LOTR movies and they show the level of tallent and commitment required in so many areas to make screen fantasy a huge success.
Fingers, hell everything crossed.

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 02:34 PM

Very exciting as it's HBO who is producing, it should be excellent!

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 03:27 PM

It's got potential, at least.

And with HBO chance are they won't shirk from

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that takes place in the first few chapters. Maybe.

- Abyss, wonders how they'll manage the wolves...

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 04:14 PM

I wonder how graphic the scenes with

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(its been a while since I read these books) will be. :thumbsup:

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Posted 12 November 2008 - 04:57 PM

Personally, the first and the 3rd books are my faves, and I liked ALOT about the first one, so I look forward to seeing HBO do this up....especially cause they won't shy away from the sex and violence.

I can't wait to see both Winterfell and the Wall in real life....THAT will be awesome.

Here's hoping they shoot in New Zealand....

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Posted 13 November 2008 - 01:55 AM

Frikkin awesome, I pray to the god of all that is good and worth viewing to please get this one right, pleeeeeeease! We need a praying smiley Grrrr!

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Posted 19 November 2008 - 03:50 PM

re: various "distasteful" elements to ASoIaF plots.

Hasn't Martin said something about ageing up the characters for any tv adaptation in order to forestall some of the qualms that a broadcaster might have with those plot points?

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 01:15 AM

Its a bit late to want to increase their ages now...You already decided that its perfectly okay to do it in the books. Is that double standards? And stop pissing about being interested in movies, get some writing done!

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 01:26 AM

Well maybe if the HBO series is successful it will put a bit of pressure on to complete the books. If they're dedicating a season per book, that would mean at the moment the've got four seasons worth of material. I don't think they would be very happy to wait three years after those first four seasons for more material.

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#15 stone monkey

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 04:20 PM

I don't want to piss on your bonfire but you should remember that these are the guys who stopped making Rome at exactly the point the history tells us that the stories were going to get far more interesting... We might just be counting chickens; they may decide to cancel after a single season.